Several timber-framed cruck buildings were demolished in 1929 and in 1973 a local historical society documented another during demolition dated to 1400 or earlier. The Harte the Swan, with 1490 dating stone the Talbot the White Bear the Ram, with timber from before 1500 and the White Lion.
Travellers in the 16th and 17th centuries had several inns and stable yards dating from the medieval period to stop at: The church at the time was in the hands of King Edward VI. ĭame Cecily Fogan in 1521, gave extensive land to the parish church and community in Mansfield in her will. The Manor was then passed to the Dukes of Newcastle and Portland. In 1516, during the reign of King Henry VIII, an act of parliament settled the Manor to Thomas, Duke of Norfolk. The plaque was refurbished in 2005 and moved to a ground-plinth. In the town centre, a commemorative plaque was erected in 1988 together with a nearby tree to mark the point thought once to be the centre of Sherwood Forest. Īccess to the town was by road from the city of Nottingham, on the way to Sheffield. In (1092) the church was passed by King William II to Robert Bloet the bishop of Lincoln and Lord Chancellor of England. St Peter and St Paul's Church is mentioned in the Doomsday Book in (1086). It was here where King William the Lion of Scotland met King Richard I of England (Richard the Lionheart) to congratulate him on his return from the crusades. There are remains of the 12th-Century King John's Palace in Clipstone, between Mansfield and Edwinstowe, and it was an area of retreat for royal families and dignitaries through to the 15th Century. Mansfield, Skegby and Sutton in Ashfield were the land of the king in 1086 as stated in the Doomsday Book. King Richard II signed a warrant in November 1377 to grant tenants the right to hold a four-day fair each year the spelling had changed to Mannesfeld. The Domesday Book (1086) recorded the settlement as Mammesfeld and market-petition documents of 1227 spelt it Maunnesfeld. In 1329 Queen Isabella, mother of Edward III, was the Lady of the Manor of Mansfield. The Manor, then owned by King Henry III, subsequently passed to Henry de Hastings. Later, King Edward I held a Royal Council in the town. King John used to visit Mansfield frequently between 1200-1216, that he built a residence here. In 1199 the Manor was owned by King John.
Sir John Cockle was later known as the Miller of Mansfield. In the time of Henry II of England, the king visited what is now known as Kings Mill, staying at the home of Sir John Cockle for a night having been hunting in Sherwood Forest. King William the Conqueror later owned two carucates, five sochmans, and thirty-five villains twenty borders, with nineteen carucates and a half in demesne, a mill, piscary, twenty-four acres of meadow and pasture' in Mansfield.
In 1042, King Edward the Confessor possessed a manor in Mansfield. The Royal Manor of Mansfield was held by the King. King William I the Conqueror in 1066 made Sherwood Forest a Royal Forest for hunting which was frequently visited by the Mercian (between 586 A.D. Major Hayman Rooke in 1787 discovered a villa between Mansfield Woodhouse and Pleasley a cache of denarii (300-400 Roman Silver Coins were found near King's Mill in 1849. Three conjectures have been considered, either the name was given to the nobel family of Mansfield who came over with King William the Conqueror, others indicate the name came from Manson, an Anglo Saxon word for traffic and a field meaning a place of trade, or named after the river Maun which runs through Mansfield, the town being built around the river. Mansfield is the one local authority in Nottinghamshire with a publicly elected mayor.Īccording to William Horner Dove (1894) there is dispute to the origins of the name. It had a population of 110,500 at the 2021 census, according to the Office for National Statistics. The town lies in the Maun Valley, 12 miles (19 km) north of Nottingham. It gained the Royal Charter of a market town in 1227. It is the largest town in the wider Mansfield Urban Area and the second largest settlement in Nottinghamshire (following the city of Nottingham). Mansfield / ˈ m æ n s f iː l d/ is a market town and the administrative centre of the Mansfield District in Nottinghamshire, England.
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